This story repeats and repeats every time. We will learn how to deal with these technologies as we have every time.

Printing press was a bitch for information control but no one disputes the positive effect it eventually had. Writing, telephone, etc etc.

For our information environment, people will eventually have to start realizing that a third of posts are bots, and another third are people who have no interest in the reader’s well being.

Perhaps eventually a news organization funded by micro donations might rise up. Or we start appending reliability tags to posts [this poster is completely anonymous, this poster gave their full identity, this poster is using a pseudonym and is confirmed to live in the UK, this poster is using a pseudonym and is confirmed to live in Ethiopia and has been banned by several moderation services.